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| Sir Bill Cotton dies in hospital | Sir Bill Cotton dies in hospital |
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| Sir Bill Cotton, former controller of BBC One, has died. | Sir Bill Cotton, former controller of BBC One, has died. |
| His death was confirmed by his family, and it is understood that the ex-BBC chief died in a Bournemouth hospital. | |
| Sir Bill, who was 80, oversaw some of the BBC's most popular TV shows in the 1970s, including Monty Python's Flying Circus and Morecambe and Wise. | |
| He later became the BBC's managing director of television before retiring in 1987. He was awarded the Academy Fellowship by Bafta in 1998. | |
| As well as being the BBC's head of light entertainment between 1970 and 1977, Sir Bill was also in charge of BBC One for four years. |